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what's up Tech fans Kevin here on Tekken tomorrow we're taking a break from gaming again to bring you guys another accessory review this time a keyboard the libera supreme illuminated gaming keyboard from Tesoro now for those you guys that haven't heard of Tesoro there's still a pretty relatively young company as far as gaming accessories go they've only been around since 2011 so only about three years old and they're based in the US and it's a bunch of gaming enthusiasts that want to make gaming accessories for avid PC gamers so we're gonna take a look at their latest keyboard the Loeb era and take a look at how it performs how it looks and basically just let you know whether or not it's worth your dollar so let's check it out today on tech of tomorrow so this is the libera supreme for those you curious about the name most accessory companies have a habit of using a theme for naming their devices and tessaro's approach with their keyboards is to name them all after legendary swords in this case it's the libera aka the wolf Slayer which was wielded by saint ferdinand the third of castile in the early 13th century so now that we've had your little history lesson out of the way let's talk about the actual libera keyboard before we get nolan nitty-gritty performance stuff let's talk aesthetics the libera supreme is a mid-sized keyboard with a relatively simple and straightforward design as far as gaming keyboards go with the obvious exception of the fact that it does have illuminated keys which personally I really prefer I don't need a keyboard to be flashy I just need it to perform despite its relatively compact size the libera is a surprisingly hefty and solidly built feeling keyboard you'll notice that on the bottom it has legs that are just for three separate Heights and the legs themselves are rubber-coated instead of just plain plastic so it's gonna hold its ground a lot better in your desktop not easily shift around so much as far as the illumination options go there's a large variety of colors to choose from using the RGB scale it's not in the millions but it covers all the important bases that you'll actually need you can even adjust multiple lighting settings like having it pulsate or only light up those keys most traditionally associated with gaming like WASD and the number keys the only aspect that bothers me a little bit are the side lights which on their own do look great but they always add a violet of hue to things so you won't notice it very much with red or violet lights but if you're going for green or yellow or just plain white you'll notice the sides take on a different color something you may or may not like personally it bothers me a little bit now let's take a look at performance now to begin with the Libero supreme comes in four different switch types so this isn't one of those situations where they're all red or they're all brown it's up to you and your personal preference to choose between red brown black and blue now for those of you that don't know the difference between switches here's just a really basic rundown of them red switches have the lowest resistance of them and are really popular in a lot of gaming keyboards because you can just rapidly press different keys and they'll all read Brown switches of the second most common which offer a little more resistance but also have a tactile response so every time you press a key you really feel it now black and blue switches are less commonly seen in gaming keyboards and more popular amongst typists but they still see some use black switches are for the resistance of the whole group so you really have to press down for every key press whereas blue switches are still a mid-ground kind of like the brown switches but they also add on this really loud clickety clack sound whenever you press something which I personally really like it's a good midway between typing and gaming and I like the sound that it makes but if you have any roommates family members or coworkers they might go a little insane from all the noise now it's worth noting that even though it uses the same colored designations the libera supreme does not use the industry standard Cherry MX switches but rather another brand that in all honesty I can barely tell the difference from every now and then I might notice that it feels a little more resistant but never enough to really impact my sense of control now as far as special features go the Libero covers a lot of the popular basics we see in a lot of gaming keyboards the f1 through F 6 keys also act as media control options you can switch between 6 key and n key rollover and the keyboard has built-in pass throughs to hook up to more USB powered devices an audio jack and mic input and even a DC injected charge or power some other devices and the keyboard does include a USB 2 DC cable to open up some more options for that the Libero also has three customizable macro buttons located right below the spacebar at the bottom of the keyboard now three macro buttons is a little low compared to some of the competing gaming keyboards out there but with the ability to quickly choose between five different gaming profiles using the FA through f12 keys you really have up to 15 different macro keys to program which is more than enough for most gamers now you can program these macros one of two ways you can either go the long traditional route of using the Libero software and take time setting them up and programming them or you can use the keyboards instant record option by hitting this little hidden record button on the upper right side of the keyboard blending in with the caps lock light and others as well as another slightly hidden switch that turns on and off gaming mode recording with the instant record button is a lot easier and honestly much more preferable over using Lovera software which is really my biggest complaint regarding this keyboard the libera interface is just not that user-friendly and not very well explained in fact I hadn't even took me a long time to really figure out how to change the color on my keyboard because there is no color button or a button that shows the current color I'm using it's instead this random little silver triangle without any explanation so I just really feel like Liberec could have done a better job making it much more user-friendly now one last important thing to cover about how this keyboard performs is that it is a true anti-ghosting keyboard some keyboards will say their anti-ghosting but it's only that it covers certain specific really common button combinations whereas this one if you have the N key rollover activated you could fall asleep at your computer land your face right on the keyboard and it will read every single input which is really important when you're playing some games you have to try and do ten different things at once so overall I really like the Libero supreme gaming keyboard the software interface could be better and I am still a little bothered by those side lights being a different color but outside of that everything else is solid at a common price tag of 130 $9.99 this is a great option for those of you that want an RGB keyboard with a large variety of colors not to mention stable performance useful features your choice of switch preference or just a keyboard that just looks great I really recommend it well that was our review of the little bear a supreme illuminated gaming keyboard if you want to grab one for yourself we do have a link posted in description they're a bit hard to grab at the moment but once they're back in stock you can check them out through there now if you guys enjoyed this vid please make sure to let us know by hitting that like button and if you're not a subscriber yet then you should be because we're always pumping out more content until next time I'm Kevin protecting tomorrow we'll see you later